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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: OT ; Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 08:30:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2 Oct 2024 07:29:49 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 03:05:23 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On 2 Oct 2024 02:40:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> Democracy leads to mediocrity and worse.
>> 
>> “Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the
>> others.”
>>     -- Winston Churchill

You have this implicit assumption in the USA that you are the best in the 
world at everything. Therefore if you do something badly, nobody else can 
be doing it better.

Quite a few other countries manage to do democracy better than you; why 
not learn from them?